Cabinet approves the Container Manufacturing Promotion Scheme
economy · ssc-cgl, ibps-po, rrb-ntpc, rbi-grade-b
Why this mattersIndia imports almost all its shipping containers, so the scheme is about supply chain dependence rather than shipping itself. Note the outlay runs to FY 2039-40, which is far longer than a usual scheme window and is the detail a question turns on.
Linked static GK: Containerisation is measured in TEU, the twenty foot equivalent unit, and India's largest container port by volume is Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Nhava Sheva.
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Cabinet approves the Khelo India Sports Goods Manufacturing Scheme
sports · ssc-cgl, rrb-ntpc, ssc-chsl, ibps-po
Why this mattersThis is a manufacturing scheme that happens to be about sport, so it sits under the Sports Ministry rather than Commerce, and that pairing is what gets asked. Khelo Bharat Niti 2025 replaced the National Sports Policy of 2001.
Linked static GK: India's sports goods manufacturing is concentrated at Jalandhar in Punjab and Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.
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Cabinet approves Pradhan Mantri Viksit Gram Swaraj Yojana as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme
schemes · upsc-prelims, ssc-cgl, zp-bharti, mpsc-group-c
Why this mattersA Centrally Sponsored Scheme is cost shared with the states, unlike a Central Sector Scheme which the Centre funds alone, and this one states both shares explicitly. Being co-terminus with the Sixteenth Finance Commission is the kind of detail that separates reading from recall.
Linked static GK: Panchayati Raj was given constitutional status by the 73rd Amendment of 1992, and village level local government is a State subject.
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Index of Industrial Production grows 6.7 per cent in September 2026
economy · ibps-po, rbi-grade-b, ssc-cgl, nabard
Why this mattersThe IIP is compiled by the National Statistics Office and its base year is 2022-23, which was revised from 2011-12. A question naming the wrong base year or the wrong compiling body is the standard trap.
Linked static GK: The IIP covers mining, manufacturing and electricity, and manufacturing carries the largest weight of the three.
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Sports and Education Ministries sign a memorandum of understanding with UNESCO on clean sport
international · ssc-cgl, upsc-prelims, ugc-net, ctet
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, the Ministry of Education and UNESCO exchanged a memorandum of understanding to take clean sport values to classrooms across India through the Sports Values in Every Classroom Toolkit.
Sources: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2329464
Why this mattersUNESCO owns the International Convention against Doping in Sport, which is why an anti-doping initiative reaches classrooms through UNESCO rather than through WADA. WADA sets the code; UNESCO is the treaty body governments sign.
Linked static GK: The World Anti-Doping Agency is based at Montreal and UNESCO at Paris, and India's testing agency is NADA with the National Dope Testing Laboratory as its laboratory.
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INS Sahyadri arrives at Busan for the India Republic of Korea Navy bilateral exercise
defence · nda, cds, afcat, ssc-cgl
Why this mattersINS Sahyadri is a Shivalik class frigate, the first stealth frigates designed in India, and it is the ship most often used for these deployments. The class name rather than the ship name is what a question usually withholds.
Linked static GK: The Shivalik class comprises INS Shivalik, INS Satpura and INS Sahyadri, all built at Mazagon Dock in Mumbai.
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Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025 enters the Guinness World Records
governance · ssc-cgl, ctet, ssc-chsl, rrb-ntpc
Why this mattersULLAS is the adult literacy programme, formally the Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram, and it is routinely confused with school literacy schemes. The Buildathon record belongs to school education, so the two appear together here but are separate programmes.
Linked static GK: ULLAS, launched in 2022, targets adults aged 15 and above who missed formal schooling, and it replaced the earlier Saakshar Bharat programme.
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APEDA facilitates the first export of GI tagged Tandur Redgram to Australia
agriculture · ssc-cgl, nabard, upsc-prelims, ibps-po
Why this mattersRedgram is the pulse better known as tur or arhar, and Tandur is in Telangana's Vikarabad district. A geographical indication protects the place name, not the crop, which is the distinction a question tests.
Linked static GK: APEDA works under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and was set up by an Act of 1985, while geographical indications are registered under the GI of Goods Act, 1999.
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Rs 77.98 crore released under Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana for senior citizens
schemes · ssc-cgl, upsc-prelims, mpsc-group-c, ssc-chsl
Why this mattersAVYAY is the umbrella scheme and the Integrated Programme for Senior Citizens is a component inside it, so a question naming the component as the scheme is wrong. The projection of 23 crore by 2036 is the figure most often quoted from this release.
Linked static GK: The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act dates from 2007, and the National Policy on Older Persons from 1999.
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Textiles PLI portal reopens for Round 4 applications from 1 November 2026
economy · ssc-cgl, ibps-po, rrb-ntpc, rbi-grade-b
Why this mattersThe textiles PLI covers only man made fibre and technical textiles, not cotton, which is the limitation most often missed. Lowering the Part 2 turnover bar is the change that brings MSMEs in.
Linked static GK: Technical textiles are functional rather than decorative fabrics, and India's mission for them is the National Technical Textiles Mission approved in 2020.
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India at CBD COP-17 in Yerevan calls for turning biodiversity commitments into implementation
environment · upsc-prelims, ssc-cgl, ugc-net, rrb-ntpc
Why this mattersThe host city of a COP and its presidency are the two facts asked about every conference, and they travel together: Armenia holds the CBD COP17 presidency because Yerevan hosts it. Do not confuse the CBD COP with the UNFCCC climate COP, which is a different treaty with its own numbering.
Linked static GK: The Convention on Biological Diversity opened for signature at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and India's National Biodiversity Authority at Chennai was set up under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.
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